Some space to write down what I was thinking about when I designed or photographed something.
I’ve been working with a new design these past few days … I’m trying to build a portable power supply / charger for mobile usb devices. Inspired by Lady Ada’s Minty Boost, I set out to build something a bit more powerful. Perhaps I can call it the Minty XL? Alas, that [...]
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Following up on the dev box upgrade article, I’ll try to describe the process of blind luck and educated guesswork that enabled my network to support “fat clients”.
My dev box had a conflict. I needed memory bandwidth and processing power, but I didn’t need local storage. Ever since a near miss on [...]
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My project for this past weekend was to get my development machine up and running, after being in a state of ‘upgrade’ since pretty much July.
The old box was 2nd generation Pentium IV (mpga 478, 400fsb) 1.6ghz, with a gigabyte of rambus and a tired old pata hard disk. The machine served well [...]
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